Russia, Soviet Union. A Partisan Medal, I Class, Wartime Dated Example Buy Now inscribed "VIVE LE ROI" (Long

inscribed "VIVE LE ROI" (Long Live the King) on the obverse

missing its swing bar pinback

and only 10 awarded

She was laid down in 1927

1896 in Yarmouth

Russia, Soviet Union. A Partisan Medal, I Class, Wartime Dated Example Buy Now inscribed "VIVE LE ROI" (LongConstructed of silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal backplate, the obverse bearing leftward facing profiles of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, situated above a banner bearing a sickle and hammer flanked by initials (USSR), and circumscribed by an inscription of (TO A PARTISAN OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR), the reverse bearing an inscription of (FOR OUR SOVIET MOTHERLAND), topped by a sickle and hammer